Happy Birthday Nathalie!!!

Happy Birthday Dear Nathalie!!!! We love you!!

A special videogram for you :)

A singing kind of Sunday

I couldn't help myself in videoing the superstar of our house....

"Hit it"

Painted Puppy Days

Mikayla had a field trip with her class this week to a place called Plaster Fun House. Mikayla came home with a little puppy that she painted. I mentioned to her that IF she made it for me I would be soooooo happy to have it on my desk at work and how beautiful it is….. she said “well Mommy, I did make it for you.” Of course, I was very excited about this!! I love seeing her thumbprints all over my desk (which there are quite a few!!). She then follows up to say that it would be ok if I showed all my friends at work… so you KNOW I’m happy to do that… then the continues on to say that maybe they would write her a note. Well you KNOW that I took my assignment very seriously. My friends at work were sooooo happy to comply (thank you soooo much for that) and they even posed for pictures with the puppy.

It made me so happy to see her reaction when I showed her the pictures so she could see who I was talking about as I read the notes to her. Now mind you, Mikayla is a child of MANY words… and she was so touched that she really didn’t have much to say, with each new note and picture, she would put her hand over her heart and just listen to what they had to say ……

It was definitely a most precious memory…I will cherish it always, thank you to my friends that went along with making a Mom’s heart full and happy and for inspiring a little girl!! I can’t wait to write notes for other little kids out there….

Here is the glittery puppy!

Here is Mikayla holding her precious notes (of course I took them away to scrapbook with, I mean to keep safe..... they are true tresures!)

Some new scrappy work :)

I have been slacking on blogging but I have been doing things LOL... here is some of my latest work, I have really missed my crafting!!! I'm baaaccckkkkk ;) I have officially finished 09 birthday and Christmas - next project (besides general scrappy pictures) are Easter and Leslie's pages.... and honeymoon (yes a little late but still planning on it) plus....well you get the idea ;) I do have more layouts done that I will take pictures of :) and hopefully more to add.

This is my sister and me (and mom and dad) when we were little at my Grandma's house, it's fun to start more work on my sister's book :)

Happy 4th of July!!!

We started the celebration at the Houston festival...my gosh it was SOOOO hot and SOOOOO crowded! WOW!!! From there we went south to the boat for the fireworks.



Here was a neat picture I took at the festival... isn't it awesome how the clouds reflect in the glass of the building! Coolest picture I've ever taken (and it was with my phone camera LOL)







Here is my little goof ball :)

It is so difficult to get good firework pictures, one day I will be successful! LOL here are my attempts.........feel free to laugh!!!

LOL no clue what happened here!!

Almost got this one....

Ahhhhhh a little better!

Oh yea!!!! success.....

There's a Birthday in the House!!!

Actually not one birthday.....
Not two birthdays.......
but THREE birthdays......

Happy Birthday Tami
Happy Birthday Michael
Happy Birthday Dad!!

We celebrated with a YUMMY dinner and of course cake and ice cream. :) As usual, there was a helper for candle blowing and present opening :)

Mikayla made this for Michael :) I love seeing her writing progress :) she amazes me!

Some cousin fun!

This fella in the water.... he's about 40+ years old. We had so much fun laughing at him!! He still totally works and kicks and swims under water LOL. This was my brother-in-law's toy when he was little. They sure don't make toys like this anymore!

He did need some help getting back out again ;)



Getting ready for some pool time!


Mikayla and J were SOOOO happy to see each other!! They play so well together!

Mikayla and N.... they really love each other. Such a sweet relationship they have.

I love this floaty, it cracks me up!!!

"Walk in" (instead of drive in) movie LOL - It was so nice to be outside (once it cooled off a bit) and watch a movie in total comfort :)

Good times!!!!